Arts Facilitation

We encourage union locals to work with artists to produce community arts projects that address issues of importance to the local. The arts can be a useful tool to bring members together, to celebrate a union’s history, milestones and achievements, communicate campaign issues to members, be a mobilizing tool and everything in between.

There are many fantastic artists that know how to work with union members and understand the issues that working Canadians are facing. Our Program Coordinator, Tara, is able to help put unions in touch with artists as well as provide some support to apply for funding from the Ontario Arts Council’s Artists in the Community/Workplace program.

For more information, please contact Tara Bursey, Program Coordinator at 905-522-3003 x 29, or contact us online.

Making Art Work

WAHC is pleased to have published Making Art Work: A Labour Arts Manual, and make it available as a free download. Compiled by Hamilton artist Ingrid Mayrhofer, the manual features works by artists engaged in labour arts across Canada. It is designed as a source of instruction and inspiration for artists and activists undertaking collaborative art projects in their communities, specifically with labour. Making Art Work was produced with generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.